Spikelets paniculate, subglobose, somewhat inflated, placed obliquely on the pedicels; glumes and sterile lemma papery, usually lanate-pubescent at the tip; first glume one-third to half as long as the spikelet, broad and clasping, the second glume and sterile lemma nearly equal, a little shorter to a little longer than the fertile floret; fruit bony-indurate, blunt, the lemma and palea with a tuft of short hairs from a minute depression at the tip, the margins of the lemma firm but not inrolled; palea convex above, the tip often free at maturity
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